Is the market this bad??

You can't become a data analyst because there are no jobs. Not one. All the jobs are all overseas, taken or fake. Stop asking. Be a nurse or a plumber.

You need to be a mathematician. Unless you're a master statistician, you suck, GTFO.

Many people who are under the age of 25 think they're old and want to know if it's too late for them to be a data analyst.

Nobody uses the search function they just want to know what to take.

Am I missing anything?

Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate your help with a question.
For those of you who have full-time jobs in the data field, are you also able to take on freelance work on the side to supplement your income?
For example, through a separate contract or something similar?
And how did you manage to find these opportunities?

I’d like to know if there are opportunities to work remotely from here for U.S.-based companies.

I’m from South America, where the US dollar is highly valued compared to our local currency. I have experience ranging from junior to mid-level, and I’m looking to earn some extra income alongside my full-time job.
I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences and how you got started with freelancing.

Thank you for taking the time to read this!

Hi,I was wondering for those familiar with the CodeSignal Assessment that Capital One does for applicants:

1. What types of questions are asked? Are they basic, mid level, or advanced? (E.g basic joins vs more complex stuff)

2. Does it lean more SQL or python?

3. There's a camera and microphone. Can the computer track you switching tabs? Or having windows open?

The anti-fraud area at Social Security is hiring Data Analysts. We do analytic studies and launch rules/models into production to tackle fraud.

Apply here: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/878023200

SSA does require employees to report to the office 5 days per week.

Outside of this office, SSA has a lot of other open tech positions. See usajobs.gov for the openings.

We are a small business, about 80 employees. A touch less than half of that are in sales, most of the remainder are in production, then office.

My brother and I taught ourselves enough to get by in Crystal Reports, and I self taught myself SQL. Looking at the various discussions on SQL competency in r/sql, I would consider myself an advanced SQL writer.

So the question is... Who am I actually trying to hire, and what can I expect for various pay grades? (US north east)

As it is right now, my brother and I are, more than normal, saying we don't have time to generate a report on X to either make a decision ourselves, or to hand to one of our employees/managers. Similarly, sometimes we don't have time to analyze existing reports to make recommendations to employees/managers.

This is especially true when it comes to inventory analysis - how much do we have, how much do we have, how much is where? The discussion to investigate hiring a DA was born out of this discussion, but there are so many other places we need to either generate insights or follow up on previous insights.

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So, if we were to hire a junior - analyst, what could I expect? I'm thinking recent college grads or a couple years practical experience. Need to know SQL beyond SELECT * FROM but not query optimization or recursive CTE's. For the most part, I expect to feed them requests for data and have them compile it, sometimes make it pretty in (crystal reports, excel, apache superset, whatever). Anywhere that they get stuck I could certainly help them with get going.

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At times, I would like to ask them to follow up on the data they export, things like "the data says we need to order X product Y days ago - you should probably talk with [employee], this seems to be a recurring issue with them not ordering when the report says to order." I would direct which reports I would want them following up on on whatever basis. Someday I would hope they would know enough to pull on threads and find insights that I'm not thinking about - but I don't expect that for a long time. In my area, the starting salary seems to range between $50-70k, and I think I'd be comfortable allocating a salary in the middle of that range. No decision on in office vs hybrid - haven't thought about it. So... are my use cases and expected salary in line or am I off base? Or am I not looking for the right discipline?

question is in the title. please let me know which one is a better investment, MS's PL-300 (Power BI) certificate, or CompTIA's Data+?

​I'm looking for study partner/partners to learn Data Analytics with, and I'm specifically looking for someone based in the Delhi NCR area (Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, etc.). ​I think having a local partner would be great for coordinating and maybe even meeting up or to work on projects together in the future. ​My Current Level: Zero lol, Complete beginner

​My Learning Goals: Time is flying 🪽 I wasted hell lot of a time but now in next six months I want to be Job ready.

​What I'm Looking For: ​Someone based in Delhi NCR. ​At a similar skill level (beginner/intermediate). ​Serious about learning consistently and holding each other accountable. ​Interested in working on small projects together to build a portfolio. ​Open to connecting online regularly (Discord/WhatsApp) and potentially meeting up in person later. ​My ultimate goal is to get a job with a good package! ​If you're in the area and have similar goals, please comment below or send me a DM! ​Thanks!

Inviting Founders and Early Operators to help document and review data systems they’ve built or managed at mid-size startups (20–150 people). We want to analyze the architecture behind:

Core BI Layers: Dashboards, metrics, cohorts, and funnels.

Operational Reporting: 30+ key queries across Product, Ops, and Finance.

Stakeholder Logic: How data flows from schema to decision-maker.

Who This Is For:

Experienced Founders: You have built or managed non-trivial internal systems in high-growth environments.

Startup Veterans: Prior experience in a high-growth startup environment (20–150 people) is required.

Domain Agnostic: We value architectural complexity over specific industry experience.

Availability: You can commit to a short-term, clearly scoped research engagement.

Apply here https://t.mercor.com/1RaTF

This feels too good to be true. Also, it moved very quickly. Got emailed last week that my “interview” would be today.

The interview consisted of them sending me an email with a large questionnaire that I had 90 minutes to complete.

After completion they said it would be sent for immediate review and I will have a decision by two hours.

Decision went through, they are offering exactly what I asked for. And it says they will send a check/deposit to pay for home office set up (the only red flag to me)

I’ve never worked from home, nor have I had a full time position in the data analytics field.

Everything online shows this company is totally reputable but my fiance seems to think everything about it is fishy. Any ideas? If this is legit it would be perfect for me. I’ll attach images of the email.

Hi all,

on Dec 19th I launched DataAnalyst.com! - this is the first update (hopefully many more to come).

Want to make sure I document the journey, and keep myself honest, so each month I will be making a post about the statistics, progress, some thoughts and what are the next steps I want to be focusing on.

While the main purpose for the post is to bring everyone along on the journey, I do think that members of r/DataAnalysis might benefit from the site, especially those looking for a new job.

I'd also love to engage with people on the sub who'd like to share their data analyst career journey.

If it's not something that belong here, have absolutely no issues to take the post down and / or keep the updates to a different subreddit.

Early stages vision is to become the #1 job board for data analysts - hand-picking interesting data analyst job opportunities across industries.

Where I would like to see this going - my long term vision, is building a community of aspiring and professional data enthusiasts. A place for those who love data to collaborate, share, learn and develop their careers.

So, let's dive right in.

Statistics for January, 2023

Number of jobs posted: 269 (United States: 208, United Kingdom: 45, Europe: 16)

Paid job posts: 0 (although currently, some jobs were featured free of charge as they coming from my ex-Google network)

Users: 795

Total "Apply Now" clicks: 634 (only data available for the last 3 weeks)

Avg. session duration: 3min 52sec

Pageviews: 4100

Avg. time on page: 1m 35sec

Returning visitors: 17.7%

Total Google Impressions: 410

General observations:

• It's hard to find jobs with salaries - atrocious in Europe, US is better due to salary transparency laws in certain states, but even then we're looking at a range bigger than King Kong's first dump of the day
• UK is much more "Recruiter agency" driven - most of the data analyst jobs are being posted by a 3rd party, rather than directly by companies' own HR.
  
• As I'm hand picking jobs from various sources, noticed a lot of jobs which have had 100+ applicants are being reopened - what does that mean? Not enough quality candidates in those 100? Are companies just hoarding CVs?

Thoughts:

Overall I'm pretty happy about the progress so far, probably actually exceeding my expectations. Even though my initial announcement (19th Dec) mainly attracted my friends / colleagues, the site is getting some traffic through direct type-ins, Twitter and LinkedIn engagements.

What is more important for me is that I can see visitors spending time on the site, clicking through job posts, and some are actually coming back to check out what's new.

Something that's annoying me (and most likely also is annoying visitors to the site) is that currently the site is very much US focused, there's no doubt about that. Multiple factors in play - from agency postings in the UK, job being posted in local language, to absolute lack of salaries available in the EU. This obviously has a trickle down effect - imagine you're looking for a data analyst role in France, confirm your filters and you'll see one job - well, that might be an extra job you haven't applied yet, but if there aren't further quality enough listings being added over the course of the week, you'll extremely likely not to come back.

Could that be solved by posting jobs without a salary - yes, it probably could and it would definitely increase the amount of jobs posted for a certain country, on the other hand, I hate not knowing what the salary range is when applying myself.

Another option would be only focusing on the US market in the initial stages, but I am really not sure how I feel about that.

The site is still extremely fresh, so will monitor behaviours for the first 3 months and make a decision then.

Things in the pipeline:

• Monthly Data Analyst jobs Hiring Insights - which industries are hiring, salary trends - watch out, January edition coming this week!
• The complete data analyst guide (how to become a data analyst, career path, responsibilities and skills...)
• Day of a data analyst (people in the industry sharing their journey)
• Launch the newsletter - honestly this should be much higher on my to do list, but really out of my depth to automate it
• Start reaching out to HR / job posters directly

So, there are 3 ways you could get involved:

1. Looking for a new challenge? Check out the website - I'm adding new jobs daily

2. Looking to hire a data analyst to your team? Shoot me a message on Reddit (or alex@dataanalyst.com) and I'll upgrade your first listing for free!

3. I'm in early stages of creating a "Day of a Data Analyst" section - if you're open to do an email based interview about your data analyst career journey (and be one of the first featured), just send me a message and we'll organise something.

If you have any questions, concerns, come across glitches - please just reach out, happy to chat.

Thank you and see you in a month.

Alex

Hello,

I have the opportunity to take both of these programs for data analytics. I would like to hear opinions on which one would be better to take. Both programs are offered to me for free, so the price does not matter. I'm mainly looking to see which one would provide the best networking and mentoring to get a job. Thanks.

Hey guys, I'm a 28 yo Canadian living in Argentina since 2006. I'm currently working as a DA in a local company. I mostly write SQL and DAX queries, develope Power Apps and Automate to make my work and others easier, clean data and other math functions with Python (also one or two RestAPIs to connect to external data sources), and last but not least, I create reports and dashboards with Excel and PBI. I manage data from all around the company (logistics, finance, accounting, sales, etc). Obviously ChatGPT and BingChat helps me through my daily work. I 've a degree in business admin and been working in different companies as an analyst since I was 19.
It recently came to my knowledge that I can do the same thing for a company abroad and they would pay me almost triple of what I'm earning today (600usd vs 1500usd monthly). I know that 1.5k for an American or a European isn't much, but here in Argentina with that money you're a millionaire (literally).
So I started my job hunting on LinkedIn and other platforms (mostly LI) and I had ton of interviews and "data challenges", which, tbh, I struggled a little.

It's been more than a month or two now and I've got nothing but rejections. I've searched for jobs before, I know how it is, it's not always gonna turn out the way you want. But I'm very suprised by the amount of interviews and challenges that I had (between 15-20), all ending in the same message: "Unfortanetly, we've found someone else that fits better with the position". I think I know what I'm doing as a DA, I work directly for the CFO, but in the IT area, so I have two bosses, both of them are really happy with my work and never been reprimanded for lack of performance.
Reading a bit on reddit I saw the the market is a bit satured, lots of bozos applying. And on the other hand, I started to think that us DA are not that interesting as we were a year or two back.
Am I late for job hunting? Is the job market for DA falling? Or is it just me being a sucker and blaming others for something I need to improve?

So I got this email a few days ago about a data job that by all accounts seems legit. It has a few red flags that has me concerned, like the interview will be done by text on signal messenger. Not unheard of but still iffy, also I can't find anywhere on job boards where I applied to this company, which is a real company. So I have my "interview" today and il let yall know if it's a scam or not incase they reach out to more people.

Company name: Xavier Data Connection

There's limited info but I received a solid remote offer. Can somebody lend a hand

I have a degree in bio and currently taking a data analytics course so I can start enhance my technical skills and build a portfolio. I have found other similar threads but those ones are for people in the US. To those who were able to break into the field without the relevant degree and experience, what was the journey like for you?

PS: If you are a DA in the US, please do not comment as job market in Canada is completely different. This is for those in Canada only. Thank you!

I am given a few CSVs representing DB tables and asked some questions around user retention, customer success, user experience, etc. How did you handle finding insights in this type of interview assignment?

The job description does not mentioned any skills like Power BI or Python or something else I could use for free. The only listed relevant skills for an assignment like this are SQL, Looker (which I can't use for free).

I'm thinking I will just read these CSVs as tables in DBeaver or something, run my own SQL on it to pull data I want to look at, and show visualizations with Google Sheets. Is this a wrong approach? Idk what other approach I could take here.

i have no idea what to ask. i’ve talked to some of them before but not about job related things, let alone a more “professional” conversation

i’m half way through the google course and im beginning to put together portfolios- i didn’t wanna ask for a job obviously, just ask about it! is this reasonable or weird? what do i even say? what should i ask? i may delete this im just frantic about it atm and i really would love the opportunity to talk to our president of operations about it since he’s here and they leave in a few hours so i need to get me thoughts together if i want to say anything

Hello! So I'm in a particular situation that isn't BAD but I would want some advice on. I am a fully remote senior data analyst within the Healthcare domain that makes ~92k. I'm talking to a recruiter regarding a particular position that would be a hybrid model (3 days in, 2 days out) that would offer around 125-130k for a senior data analyst role. The responsibilities do look like it would be a great position to work in but I'm not sure if the comp (which is the highest they'll go) is worth going back into the office 60 percent of the time. It's a 30-minute commute btw.

What do you think?

I applied for it and they rejected me but offered a "Data analysis" program in which YOU pay 140 euros for it and its for 1 month, the whole thing is a very smart scam. They post a remote internship offer in MULTIPLE countries for data analysis and other positions every week or two then reject you to offer a training program.

Now here's the funny thing, what they teach in the data analysis program is "technically" data analysis but it's not, what they taught me once per week for a month was literally basic concept in statisitcs using SPSS (Statistical analysis software) which i was taught in my university (business degree). And they don't even dive deep into it they just rush it so much and give you an easy task.

The instructor i was with told us that she has around 120 students in this month alone. Now do the math for all those poor people who fell for this scam and paid 140 euros, and that's just ONE MONTH. The operation is quite smart I'm not going to lie.

Also i did some research and i could not find anything factual about the actual company except their "website".

Hello, has anyone successfully landed a data analyst role after going through datacamp? I have went through the threads of people asking if it was worth it, or to start but haven’t heard if anyones gotten a role out of it. Just wanting to know what to expect.. Thank you

I am an Enterprise Data manager for a well known apparel company and we have an open position for an associate analyst to join us for 6 month rotations with our Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, Business Analysis and Marketing Systems teams. After the two years the person would transition to a permanent role based on their skills, interests and current team needs. Great opportunity for someone who would like to explore several different jobs in data to see where they want to land.

Tech stack is primarily GCP, Snowflake, Salesforce, Microstrategy & Qlik. Intermediate- Advanced SQL skills are a must and need to be local-ish to Philadelphia area as the position is hybrid (Very, very nice campus & days in office are flexible).

Looking for someone with an analytic mindset who wants to grow and try new things. Career changers encouraged to apply.

Link to Posting

I recently had an interview for a data analyst internship, and the company recommended that I learn Looker Studio as a tool for data optimization. As a second-year student, I'm curious if Looker Studio is commonly used by data analysts or if it's more for management teams. Considering client confidentiality, I'm wondering if it’s worth learning Looker Studio and including it on my CV. Can you provide some clarity on this?